Megestrol Acetate Induced Paradoxical Embolism in a Sickle Cell Disease Patient

We report a case of a 43-year-old African American female patient with otherwise stable sickle cell disease (SCD) in which use of megestrol acetate for appetite stimulation quickly potentiated her prothrombotic state within just a few days. This resulted in infarcts involving the bilateral cerebral...

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Autores principales: Dominguez, Lisette, Tatar, Furkan, Malakooti, Shahdi K, Kulchinsky, Robert P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6713260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31497435
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5004

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6713260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31497435
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5004

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